| A | B |
|---|
| Bladder | a muscular sac that stores urine in the body |
| Incontinent | inability to control the passage of urine |
| Indwelling Urinary Catheter | a sterile tube inserted through the urethra into the bladder to drain urine; held in place by a small inflated balloon |
| Kidneys | filtering system of the body |
| Nocturia | the need to urinate at night |
| Retention | inability to empty the bladder |
| Sphincter Muscles | a circle of muscle fibers around the outlet of the urethra and rectum that is normally closed but can be relaxed to allow passage of urine and stool |
| Ureters | tubes that carry urine from kidneys to urinary bladder |
| Urethra | the small passage from the bladder through which urine leaves the body |
| Urinate | to pass urine (void) |
| Bowel Obstruction | a blockage in the intestine |
| Constipation | the passage of unusually dry, hard stools |
| Defecation | facing feces from the body; passing of stool |
| Diarrhea | frequent passage of liquid stool |
| Distention | the state of being inflated or enlarged |
| Feces | waste products in the bowel; same as stool or BM |
| Flatus | gas in the bowel |
| Hemorrhoids | varicose veins in the rectum that can become painful, itch, and bleed |
| Impaction | hard stool that cannot pass from the rectum normally |
| Peristalsis | wavelike movements of the digestive tract that move food through the intestinal tract |
| Suppository | a semisolid substance that may contain medicine that dissolves when inserted into the rectum or vagina |
| Halitosis | bad breath |
| Plague | sticky, transparent bacterial film found on the teeth |
